Earlier this month, a test conducted by the Leviathan Security Group showed that even "no-permissions" Android apps can access potentially sensitive data on your phone -- and transmit that data elsewhere via your phone's Web browser.
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Crime Prevention Minister James Brokenshire told the BBC it was not "some great big government snooping exercise", but a change designed to allow police officers to continue to solve crime in an era when communications data - details of phone calls - was used in 95% of all serious crime and terrorism cases.
Users pay call and data charges for phone-to-phone conversations and translation data for screen text and voice readouts.
Third-party developers have created many apps that access the data for smart-phone users.
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For the government, a warrant isn't currently required after a certain period of time for older information -- e-mail, social networking profiles or cell-phone location data -- stored "in the cloud" on Web servers.
Putting a cap on the charge made them more comfortable trying a data-intensive smart phone.
By examining historical price data as mobile-phone coverage was extended down the coast between 1997 and 2001, Mr Jensen was able to show that access to mobile phones made markets much more efficient.
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According to Peter Uglow, director of Focus Forensic Telecommunications in Bromsgrove, mobile-phone data helped disprove Mr Huntley's alibi.
Mood-tracking apps already exist but the team from the Cambridge Computer Laboratory think this is the first time that user-input data and phone information sources have been combined.
Time Warner Cable Inc. (NYSE: TWC) is among the largest providers of video, high-speed data and phone services in the United States, connecting more than 14 million customers to entertainment, information and each other.
The service could even be useful for those that do have access to Android, iOS or Windows Phone devices -- data outages can cripple smartphones, forcing users to turn to phone calls and SMS to connect with family, friends and colleagues.
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Wi-fi is also much faster than mobile phone data networks and traditional dial-up connections.
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This included giving details of which of its agencies can access e-mail and phone data.
Instead, the startup has wooed users with a slick interface and free features like data backups and find-my-phone tools.
And it's an extra that the phone's data-hungry users can't do without.
The trio went on to launch Lookout in 2007 and hooked users early with practical features like automatic data backups and find-my-phone capability.
The Asha 501, initially built to support data services on basic second-generation phone networks, will be "relevant to 80% of the world, particularly in the emerging markets, " he said.
Swapping data between computer and phone systems -- for mail-order, home- banking and other service providers -- is an ideal growth business for a computer and telecom equipment maker like Oki, he says.
Swapping data between computer and phone systems -- for mail order, home banking and other service providers -- is an ideal growth business for a computer and telecom equipment maker like Oki, he says.
Bluetooth chips, too sluggish and short-range for high-speed data (where Wi-Fi rules), are ideal for phone calls and tunes because they drain the battery far more slowly than Wi-Fi.
Pearse and others dream of unifying the mess, with a box that blends both optics and electronics, fusing the circuit-switched world of phone calls and packet-switched world of Internet data.
Waber went on to combine the data from the social sensing ID badges with other data sources -- e-mail and instant messaging patterns, phone logs, and meeting information and selected data features that related to job performance and satisfaction, and how people communicate and collaborate.
Indeed, EarthLink is not the only company looking to sell bundled voice and data--everyone from the cable companies to the local and long-distance phone giants are fighting hard for customers.
Depending on who's getting arrested, and for what, warrantless searches of cell phone data could have wide-ranging potential to implicate not just the arrested person, but also to draw police attention to other people who might be involved (or merely associated) with the arrestee.
In 1993, when William Rouhana, started WinStar--a full-service phone company, offering its customers local, long distance and data services--many scoffed at the idea.
It allows police in California to access any data stored on an arrestee's phone: photos, address book, Web-browsing history, data stored in apps (including social media apps), voicemail messages, search history, chat logs, and more.
By examining historical data for the price of fish as mobile-phone coverage was extended down the coast of Kerala in southern India between 1997 and 2001, for example, Robert Jensen of Harvard University showed that access to mobile phones made markets much more efficient, eliminating wasted catches and thereby bringing down consumer prices by 4% and increasing fishermen's profits by 8%.
It suggested that phones would eventually turn into big-screened data devices that just happened to take phone calls.
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Depending on the contract you have, certain costs for accessing the internet on your phone - usually referred to as data charges - may apply.
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